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Test 4 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style

Ethan from Boston drinks hot apple juice in Strasbourg and says, "Wicked festive, but Christmas markets are only German, right?" What do you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, Christmas markets, you · What happens: drink, say, be, tell · To what, where: hot apple juice, Strasbourg, Ethan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the French course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Ethan from Boston drinks hot apple juice in Strasbourg and says, "Wicked festive, but Christmas markets are only German, right?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drinks	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Boston	case
3	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ethan	nmod
4	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 juice	amod
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 juice	compound
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinks	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Strasbourg	case
9	Strasbourg	Strasbourg	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 juice	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drinks	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 festive	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 festive	punct
14	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 festive	amod
15	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 German	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 German	cc
18	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 markets	compound
19	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 German	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 German	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 German	advmod
22	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drinks	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 right	punct
24	right	right	INTJ	_	22 German	discourse
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 German	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Ethan from Boston	hot apple juice		Strasbourg			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Ethan from Boston not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Christmas markets					german property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What do you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you		Ethan				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The French copied markets from America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 French	det
2	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 copied	nsubj
3	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copied	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 America	case
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	the French	markets		America			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Theme

Option 2

Strasbourg is in Germany, so he's right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strasbourg	Strasbourg	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Germany	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Germany	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Germany	case
4	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 right	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Germany	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Strasbourg			Germany			tree rules
2	is	present	Strasbourg					right property	tree rules

Option 3

He's right, France has no Christmas markets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	csubj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 markets	det
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 markets	compound
9	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	have	present	France	no Christmas markets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Strasbourg's market is one of the oldest in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strasbourg	Strasbourg	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 market	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Strasbourg	case
3	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 oldest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oldest	det
8	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Europe	case
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 oldest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Strasbourg's market	one				of the oldest	tree rules
2	market		Strasbourg						nom market «act transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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